Do you know where the candidates stand on critical social issues?
By L.A. Williams, Correspondent
Christian Action League of North Carolina

RALEIGH - A mailbox stuffed with slick campaign propaganda, televised attack ads, radio commercials and media coverage of staged political events - if these are what voters are relying on to help them decide which buttons to push on Tuesday, they’ll miss out on critical issues.

“Christians simply must know where the candidates stand on family values types of issues. We need to examine not only what they say, but their voting records as well,” said the Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League of North Carolina. “Nowhere is this more important than in the presidential race.” Read the rest of this entry »

Christian Action League

TAYLORSVILLE - Attendees at the Christian Action League’s first annual meeting of its Western Convention were inspired, informed and invigorated on Oct. 28 as speakers addressed critical state and national legislative issues.

The Rev. Mark Creech, longtime pastor and executive director of the Christian Action League, brought the issues home to a crowd of more than 225 with a rousing sermon focusing on Christ, the author of our spiritual liberty and the freedoms on which our nation was founded.

Oxford Memorial Baptist Church hosted the meeting, the first of three regional conventions designed to help Christians throughout the Tar Heel state connect with the organization representing their values in Raleigh. CAL supporters from at least eight western North Carolina counties attended.  Read the rest of this entry »

The perils of voting only emotion
Bob Steinberg
Columnist

Emotion is defined as a strong feeling about someone or something. Judgment on the other hand means having the ability to form sound opinions based on knowledge or at the very least reliable guesses. In this year’s presidential contest, it seems American voters are being guided more by the former than the latter. How else can one explain the dichotomy between who pollsters and pundits say will likely become our next president and that candidate’s advocacy for fiscal and social positions most Americans have historically rejected.  Read the rest of this entry »

By Kelley Boggs
Baptist Press

Many hot-button issues have been debated over the course of the current presidential campaign. Of late, the struggling American economy has been the topic de jour. Missing from too many discussions and speeches, however, is perhaps the most searing issue–the likely appointment of one or more Supreme Court justices.

Supreme Court justices, once confirmed, are appointed for life. Hence, their influence over American society and its laws can span more than three decades. Long after a president leaves office, his appointee(s) will be rendering decisions that will impact the life and liberty of all Americans. Read the rest of this entry

Time is passing quickly in the presidential race and North Carolinians of faith and social conservatives are called upon to help volunteer at local campaign headquarters to make phone calls on behalf of John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Persons will also be needed to call favorable voters for a 72 hour push, which is to take place this weekend. Training and scripts will be given to volunteers. There are still thousands of phone calls and doors to knock on in order to prevail.

The following areas are most in need of volunteers:

* Gaston County (Gastonia)
* Orange County
* Mecklenburg County (Charlotte)
* Onslow County (Jacksonville)
* Carteret County
* Durham County (Durham)
* Wake County (Raleigh)

Keep in mind that there is only one person that will work to protect life, appoint conservative judges and keep marriage as a covenant between one man and one woman.

See what Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League is saying about the campaign in this news story: Evangelical Christians for McCain

Listen to this 2001 interview in which Sen. Obama is clear that he supports “redistributive change” and that one of the tragedies of the Warren Court was that it didn’t do more to help redistribute the nation’s wealth.

Forward this news item to your friends and family.

By L.A. Williams, Correspondent
Christian Action League

RALEIGH - Voters who flock to the polls certain of their choice for president or governor are rarely as confident when they see judicial races on the ballot.

“These candidates are not high profile, but that doesn’t mean these elections aren’t important,” said the Rev. Mark Creech, Executive Director of the Christian Action League. “Christians can’t afford to become apathetic, especially when it comes to the role of North Carolina’s high court.”

Cary attorney Anthony J. Biller, a member of the Christian Legal Society, agrees.

“This year, there is a particularly important race, in my opinion,” Biller wrote in a mailing to colleagues last week.

Elected to the N.C. Supreme Court in 2000, Edmunds will face Wake Forest University law professor Suzanne Reynolds in the Nov. 4 election.

Reynolds has been endorsed by the North Carolina National Organization for Women, the North Carolina Association of Educators, the Muslim American Society and Equality NC, a statewide organization promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, among other organizations. Read the rest of this entry »

By Warren Cole Smith
Evangelical News Press

COMMENTARY–About a year ago, at the 2007 Value Voters Summit hosted by the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., Dr. James Dobson was recognized for his lifetime of work with pro-family causes.  After receiving an award, he made some remarks.

At that time, remember, Mike Huckabee was still in the race for the presidency, and all of the Republican candidates had spoken to the group earlier that day or the day before.   So the air was politically charged, and everyone there was anxious to hear what Dr. Dobson was going to say.  Dr. Dobson had already said he “under no circumstances” could support John McCain for the presidency.  Would he repeat that assertion?  There was an air of extreme anticipation in the air as he took the podium.

As I waited in the press gallery, though, I had other thoughts on my mind.  I was remembering a day a few months earlier, on the very day Dr. Dobson denounced him, John McCain was holding a press conference in Charlotte, and I had a chance to interview him.  I repeated Dr. Dobson’s scathing words to Sen. McCain and asked him for his response.

It’s hard to remember now, but a year and a half ago, when I asked that question of Sen. McCain, his campaign was all but dead.  There were no hard-nosed national media folk following him around.  This room was full of fawning local media who had been asking softball questions.  So when I threw this inside fastball, you could almost hear an audible gasp.  For a few seconds, Sen. McCain gave me a stare that made me believe every story I had ever heard about his temper.  But, remarkably, he spoke softly, almost humbly: “Let me go on record as saying that I believe in redemption. Read the rest of this entry »

By Linda Harvey
World Net Daily
October 24, 2008

Editor’s warning: Some readers may take offense to graphic content in this column.

About eight years ago, while researching the astonishing rise of homosexual-positive programs and curricula in schools, I came across a book called “Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling” by William J. Letts IV and James T. Sears.

It’s a collection of essays by radicals in the teaching profession, who believe adults and small children must be taught to “think queerly.” The book’s foreword was written by Kevin Jennings, then president of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, or GLSEN, whose core mission is to convince as many troubled kids as possible to declare themselves homosexual and start “gay” clubs in their schools, assisted by activist on-site teachers and the ACLU, and unopposed by clueless school boards.

What jumped off the back cover of this book was the name of one of its endorsers: William Ayers of the University of Illinois at Chicago. I remembered Bill Ayers’ name from the 60s bomb-throwing group, the Weathermen. At the time, that was all his name meant to me.

But as this election drama unfolds, the Ayers connection with this despicable movement to sexualize our kids needs to be examined closely. Read the rest of this important entry